Happy Friday!

The last 11 years have been filled with hard learning. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the worst foreign policy decision in U.S. history, coincided with mission creep (“nation building”) in Afghanistan. Both strengthened what can be called the Republicans’ John Quincy Adams faction: America “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

When anyone to the left of George W. Bush tried to make the same argument a decade ago, they were derided as traitors – or worse – by the bloodthirsty, expansionist, and wrong neoconservative set.

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Stimulus.
Because “millions of shovel-ready jobs”.
And (bankrupt) Solyndra, and A123, and Abound Solar, and Fisker Automotive, and green jobs, and one million electric cars by 2015,
And Billions to Buddies and Bundlers for Barry.
Since we’re citing the U.K. as an example, Margaret Thatcher nailed the problem with liberals: “They always run out of other people’s money.”
(Incidentally–it’s nice to see that, presumably, comments on ongoing national scandals–i.e. Stimulus–will no longer be met with “This is a local issues blog!”)

The profit is projected over a 20 to 25 year period. That is highly speculative, much can change. Also, it is quite possible that had that money been left in the private sector initially, more good could come from it.